1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: preproxy 5Arg: [protocol://]host[:port] 6Help: Use this proxy first 7Added: 7.52.0 8Category: proxy 9Multi: single 10See-also: 11 - proxy 12 - socks5 13Example: 14 - --preproxy socks5://proxy.example -x http://http.example $URL 15--- 16 17# `--preproxy` 18 19Use the specified SOCKS proxy before connecting to an HTTP or HTTPS --proxy. In 20such a case curl first connects to the SOCKS proxy and then connects (through 21SOCKS) to the HTTP or HTTPS proxy. Hence pre proxy. 22 23The pre proxy string should be specified with a protocol:// prefix to specify 24alternative proxy protocols. Use socks4://, socks4a://, socks5:// or 25socks5h:// to request the specific SOCKS version to be used. No protocol 26specified makes curl default to SOCKS4. 27 28If the port number is not specified in the proxy string, it is assumed to be 291080. 30 31User and password that might be provided in the proxy string are URL decoded 32by curl. This allows you to pass in special characters such as @ by using %40 33or pass in a colon with %3a. 34
